Thangible

“You'd quickly run out of people if you had to disqualify all those who at some point have been shits. Granny then said the real trick of life was that almost no one is entirely a shit and almost no one is entirely not a shit. The hard part of life is keeping as much on the not-a-shit side as one can.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“All passion is childish. It's banal and naive. It's nothing we learn; it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to earth, but passion inhabits the universe.
That is the reason why passion is worth something, not for what it gives us but for what it demands we risk. Our dignity. The puzzlement of others and their condescending, shaking heads”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Chao ôi! Ðối với những người ở quanh ta, nếu ta không cố tìm mà hiểu họ, thì ta chỉ thấy họ gàn dở, ngu ngốc, bần tiện, xấu xa, bỉ ối... toàn những cớ để cho ta tàn nhẫn; không bao giờ ta thấy họ là những người đáng thương; không bao giờ ta thương”
― Nam Cao